Distributed leadership behaviours among elementary shool teachers

This study aimed to reveal ``what is the level of distributed leadership behaviours among elementary school teachers???. In this study both quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The study was completed the qualitative data gathered by focus group interview after getting the quantitative data gathered by survey technique. The population of the study comprised 2.123 teachers who works in fifty elementary schools in Izmir province Buca central district in 2012-2013. Elementary schools having less than 20 teachers were not included in the study. In accordance with the principle of neutrality, all branch and form teachers working in seven state schools chosen among schools having teachers between 20-30, 31-50 and above 51 are included in the study Total number of surveys which was returned to the researcher was 362. In qualitative dimension, there were five semi-structured focus group with 30 participants chosen according to their sexes and branches. To gather quantative data, a 10 items five scale Lykert type inventory, The Questionnaire of Distributed Leadersip, which was developed by Özer ve Beycioğlu (2013) was used to reveal the level of distributed leadership behaviours among elementary school teachers?. During semi-structured focus group interviews, participants were asked 2 questions transformed from inventory questions and some questions to get detailed understanding. To analyze data, mean, standart deviation, frequency, t-test and one way ANOVA were used. For qualitative analysis, audio-taped sounds, and written texts were transcribed and changed into texts. Then, the transcribed texts were coded. Arithmetic means which was measured was found 36,88 (Frequently). Based on the interviews that are conducted with the participants, it was found that the level of distributed leadership behaviours among elementary school teachers was high. In view of the findings of research, the quantative results was found supportive by the qualitative results.